From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Spice install problem Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:24:50 -0500 Message-ID: <4BFAFCB2.8080904@codemonkey.ws> References: <4BFAE7CF.3020806@io.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brian Milliron , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: brianm@io.com Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:39383 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757150Ab0EXWYy (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2010 18:24:54 -0400 Received: by vws9 with SMTP id 9so2845713vws.19 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 15:24:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BFAE7CF.3020806@io.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/24/2010 03:55 PM, Brian Milliron wrote: > I originally sent this question to the spice-devel list but they told me > I was better off to send it here... So here goes. I'm > running into some problems installing Spice .4 on my CentOS 5.5. I was > following the instructions here: > http://www.spice-space.org/docs/spice_user_manual.pdf > > I've compiled and installed all the dependencies and have the spice > client installed also, but ran into problems with the vdesktop. > Specifically this portion of the instructions for my older kernel: > > >> In case of an older kernel (version< 2.6.30) >> Get kernel sources using the following git repository: >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.30.y.git >> cd/vdesktop/kernel >> ./configure >> ln -s linux-2.6 >> make sync >> make >> >> You were steered in the wrong direction :-) This is a problem specific to vdesktop because they're using a very outdated version of kvm. The kernel code was split from the userspace code a long time ago. Regards, Anthony Liguori